Editing Nathan Bailey (section)

{{short description|British lexicographer and philologist}}
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'''Nathan Bailey''' (died 27 June 1742), was an [[England|English]] [[philologist]] and [[lexicography|lexicographer]].<ref name="eb1911">{{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Bailey, Nathan}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Stephen|first1=Leslie|last2=Lee|first2=Sidney|title=The Dictionary of National Biography|url=https://archive.org/details/modictionaryofna14step|date=1908|publisher=Smith, Elder & Co.|location=London|edition=2|chapter=Nathan Bailey}}</ref> He was the author of several dictionaries, including his ''[[An Universal Etymological English Dictionary|Universal Etymological Dictionary]]'', which appeared in some 30 editions between 1721 and 1802. Bailey's ''Dictionarium Britannicum'' (1730 and 1736) was the primary resource mined by [[Samuel Johnson]] for his ''[[A Dictionary of the English Language|Dictionary of the English Language]]'' (1755).<ref>{{cite book|last1=Starnes|first1=De Witt T.|last2=Noyes|first2=Gertrude|title=The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson 1604-1755|url=https://archive.org/details/englishdictionar0000unse_q4m1|url-access=registration|date=1946|publisher=University of North Caroline Press|location=Chapel Hill|pages=[https://archive.org/details/englishdictionar0000unse_q4m1/page/98 98]–125}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Green|first1=Jonathan|title=Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made|date=1996|publisher=Henry Holt & Co.|location=New York|pages=226–286}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last1=Drabble|first1=Margaret|title=The Oxford Companion to English Literature|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00drab_958|url-access=limited|date=2000|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00drab_958/page/n74 59]|edition=6}}</ref>